hubiestubert:The South is weird, wild, and wonderful; filled with disparate peoples, culture, and a panoply of sub-cultures that range from the Low Country to the hills, and rivers and swamps and more. There is art, culture, and history, and of peoples that range from the high culture of the plantation owners, the Southern intelligentsia, writers of gift, artists of renown, to the rural hills, folk arts, and some country ass motherf*ckers who would like to see folks strung up early and often. It's a complex weave of cultures and people, and in any city, any state, you're going to see and hear more opinions than you have people. I miss it, even the cranky and weird and sometimes downright mean hearted parts, because at the heart of being Southern, is to know and accept the good and the bad and the weird all together. Not love the bad parts or mean hearted parts, but to accept that they're there, and strive to get beyond them. It isn't as simple as being in the Northeast, but that weird and often dichotomous history has made the people and is wedded to the land.

You do have a very valid point, but don't forget the spectre of slavery and the mental justifications that it took for that to be accepted as well. While this isn't to paint all Southerners as bigots, it does add a bit more complexity to an already complex situation that also gives us startling bigotry and a strident and powerful stance against it. I can't help but think the South is the American version of J.G. Ballard's theory that America is a sandbox for all sorts of mad ideas that Western Civilization would have, only in a much more far out place (for lack of a better term).

It's quite a place, and its lows are as frightening as its highs are enlightening.

Slaxl:I'm glad these people are this stupid, because it never occurred to me to ever try melting snow with a lighter, and as a result I never knew that it'd sublimate. Now I want it to snow so I can go out and do that.

I am curious whether this is true sublimation (i.e. phase transition directly from solid to gas) or if it is going from solid to liquid and then that liquid is is being immediately boiled giving the appearance that the solid went directly to a gas.

I believe that there is a difference between the two (I could be wrong).

Katolu:I live in the "South". We have snow every winter. Who these other people are with their batshiat crazy theories are coming from I just don't know. Chemtrails...really? Still flogging that dead horse?

Near as I can tell the whole chemtrail urban myth/conspiracy theory was started by a lunatic dentist in Bakersfield CA.

mikaloyd:Katolu: I live in the "South". We have snow every winter. Who these other people are with their batshiat crazy theories are coming from I just don't know. Chemtrails...really? Still flogging that dead horse?

Near as I can tell the whole chemtrail urban myth/conspiracy theory was started by a lunatic dentist in Bakersfield CA.

That's the son of a biatch who put a radio transmitter in my fillings!

xria:The hilarious part is most of the same people scared of "chemtrails" and being "poisoned" by these chemicals are usually right wingers and therefore fully behind the burning of fossils fuels, and against environmental regulations on cars, and that sort of thing, which have been dumping all sorts of nasty trace chemicals into the atmosphere in large quantities.

Double-facepalm-worthy Story:

I once knew a guy who always used matches to light his cigarettes because he didn't want to inhale all those chemicals in a lighter.

nekom:dr_blasto: OK, because the thought of googling and reading the stuff is kind of scary, what are chemtrails supposed to be? Why do people assume that contrails are crazy stuff and if they last more than 30 seconds we're all going to die or some shiat?

Anyone?

I've heard everything from they're sterilizing the black population (how you find a chemical that sterilizes only a specific race I couldn't tell you) to communist mind control. It's just clownshiat.

Lincoln wasn't president during reconstruction. It's possible that if he had been the south may have been better of than under Johnson.I kind of wish the dumber southern states would rise again and get crushed by the north.

Olo Manolo:Kome: Olo Manolo: Yes, this is totally indicative of what every person that lives in the south thinks. Also, on a related note, I heard somebody from the north say he likes to eat babies, so clearly every single northerner eats babies.

Oh calm your tits. "People in the South" does not necessarily indicate "Every person in the south." It wasn't really a dig at stereotypes, because incidentally that's where the people who've posted these YouTube videos alleging a government conspiracy have come from. And, you know, even if <b>subby</b> did mean for the headline to be alluding to the stereotype of all Southerners being kinda on the Deliverance side of intelligence, being defensive about it without at least considering a more rational alternative explanation really doesn't do anything to prove him/her wrong.

You are right, nothing that has been posted in this thread or any of the 18,000 others in the past day referencing the same southern crazies have been a "dig at stereotypes". My tits are perfectly calm (and supple), but when people go spouting ridiculous nonsense about how an entire group of people think/are ___________, I think I'm well within my rights to point out that they are farking idiots...

Replace "people in the south" with some other descriptor (blacks, asians, fat people) then see how well it works when you tell people "oh calm down, it wasn't a play on stereotypes, that black guy they called a monkey actually looks one"

Olo Manolo:Yes, this is totally indicative of what every person that lives in the south thinks. Also, on a related note, I heard somebody from the north say he likes to eat babies, so clearly every single northerner eats babies.

It's almost like people make assumptions based on who is elected to represent them. If your chosen leader can only count to potato, expect to be ridiculed.

Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

atomicxblue:Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

And this isn't exactly an indictment of Southerners, it's an indictment of the piss-poor state of mental health treatment in our society.

Olo Manolo:Yes, this is totally indicative of what every person that lives in the south thinks. Also, on a related note, I heard somebody from the north say he likes to eat babies, so clearly every single northerner eats babies.

I'll let you in on a secret. Contrary to popular belief, the north doesn't have abortion clinics. We have human veal extraction centers. Shhhh...

atomicxblue:Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Then get to work on biatch-slapping the idiots that make you look bad.

atomicxblue:Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Coming out of a Walgreens last summer I had an old, fat, shawl wearing, prematurely grey haired, granola munching, Volvo driving, NPR volunteering, hippie-broad tell me she was inclined to report me for leaving my dog in the car on a cloudy 75 degree day - sunroof wide open and all 4 windows partially opened.

When she described the day as a hot one, I told her that Southerners would laugh in her face for thinking so and wondered aloud if she'd ever even been outside the state of Minnesota.

Fark You Buddy:atomicxblue: Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Then get to work on biatch-slapping the idiots that make you look bad.

jso2897:atomicxblue: Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Olo Manolo:Yes, this is totally indicative of what every person that lives in the south thinks. Also, on a related note, I heard somebody from the north say he likes to eat babies, so clearly every single northerner eats babies.

Olo Manolo:Kome: Olo Manolo: Yes, this is totally indicative of what every person that lives in the south thinks. Also, on a related note, I heard somebody from the north say he likes to eat babies, so clearly every single northerner eats babies.

Oh calm your tits. "People in the South" does not necessarily indicate "Every person in the south." It wasn't really a dig at stereotypes, because incidentally that's where the people who've posted these YouTube videos alleging a government conspiracy have come from. And, you know, even if <b>subby</b> did mean for the headline to be alluding to the stereotype of all Southerners being kinda on the Deliverance side of intelligence, being defensive about it without at least considering a more rational alternative explanation really doesn't do anything to prove him/her wrong.

You are right, nothing that has been posted in this thread or any of the 18,000 others in the past day referencing the same southern crazies have been a "dig at stereotypes". My tits are perfectly calm (and supple), but when people go spouting ridiculous nonsense about how an entire group of people think/are ___________, I think I'm well within my rights to point out that they are farking idiots...

Replace "people in the south" with some other descriptor (blacks, asians, fat people) then see how well it works when you tell people "oh calm down, it wasn't a play on stereotypes, that black guy they called a monkey actually looks one"

I wish this was just a southern thing, but sadly my former manager is posting the same thing and we live in Missouri where is snows all the freaking time. I've seen this same effect going on for years, I've never looked at the snow sticking to the bottom of my car that is all black from exhaust and thought...oh look government conspiracy. I'm not sure why putting the heat source from a chemical reaction closer to the snow would have some drastic different effect.

mikaloyd:<strong><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/8125254/89045285#c89045285" target="_blank">Fark You Buddy</a>:</strong> <em>atomicxblue: Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Then get to work on biatch-slapping the idiots that make you look bad.</em>

One of you yankees want to slap this dumbass?

I got this...

Fark You Buddy:<strong><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/8125254/89045145#c89045145" target="_blank">atomicxblue</a>:</strong> <em>Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.</em>

Then get to work on biatch-slapping the idiots that make you look bad.

Without the south we wouldn't have Duck Dynasty, Honey Boo Boo or GWB. Show some respect.

mikaloyd:Fark You Buddy: atomicxblue: Not everyone in the South is a backwards thinking redneck. You know, I'm really tired of all the hate dumped on us.. I don't pick on you for saying 85 is too hot, but I may have to rethink that this year.

Then get to work on biatch-slapping the idiots that make you look bad.

One of you yankees want to slap this dumbass?

Nope. He has a point.

/of course his point can apply to every stone-age, science hating, FOX news loving retard in the country..so we'll, uh, send him a sternly worded letter